Never having worked exclusively as a duo, this is the first joint statement from these two composer/performers who have played together in numerous contexts since 2001, including in experimental film soundtracks for Eron Sheean and Pia Borg, the avant-music-theatre sextet Twitch, Pateras’ Tzadik releases and in his recent collaboration with Mike Patton, tētēma. Veltheim is also a respected pop arranger in Australia, working for Gurrumul, Tom Lewis and Steve Pigram, and has composed abstract masterworks for the likes of The London Sinfonietta.

As with all Immediata releases, the audio is accompanied by extensive text, in this case an extended conversation between Pateras and Veltheim covering Melbourne underground events in the early 2000s, the persistent question of composition vs. improvisation, originality, the Marx Brothers, Jerry Hunt, Indigenous music and the relation of sound to film.

This is the third release on the ongoing Immediata series, beautifully presented in dark green thick recycled cardboard, silver hot stamped text on front, 24 page booklet, and mastered by Lachlan Carrick at Moose Mastering.